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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. You also ran the risk that if you hired employees quickly and then demand wasn’t as strong as expected it was incredibility hard to fire people.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Looxid Labs

Austin Startup

Based in Seoul, South Korea, Looxid Labs aims to integrate biometrics into the VR/AR/MR platform. To integrate a biometric system into HMD platforms, they have developed the most VR compatible brain-sensing technology, Looxid Link. I would go to Mars because I’m curious to see how society develops. Why or why not?

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Rethinking The Words You Should Lose For Those to Use

Duct Tape Marketing

Her new book Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations , shows you how to speak up instead of shut down, face challenges head-on instead of running the other way, and keep your cool even when others don’t. Get your copy of Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations Sam’s website. Like this show?

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8 Tips On Intercultural Communication And International Etiquette To Create Successful Business Relationships In Asia

YoungUpstarts

For years I’ve studied the cultures in 10 Asian countries: China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar (formerly Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Conversely, people from collectivist cultures, common to Asia, prefer group representation in meetings and negotiations. In the U.S.,

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

Whatever assessment you develop, you need to get feedback from your board and investors. ” Board members gave her a wakeup call: there was either going to be a much more realistic assessment tomorrow based on her first-hand customer conversations, or a new CEO. China and South Korea are starting their factories up again.

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Embrace: Valerie Lopez on the importance of employee-led resource groups

Transformify

An accomplished leader and mentor, Lopez reaffirms the company’s commitment in providing its multicultural global workforce with ongoing professional development and personal growth opportunities. You mentioned Asia, and I’ve lived in South Korea for 5 months. I am really proud of our employee-led resource groups.

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11 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2018

Hearpreneur

After spending 14 months researching, designing and developing our capsule, we created a collection of business casual pieces for men and women out of sustainable/ eco-friendly fabrics. We’ve also improved productivity through some helpful tips to our employees, and become a more streamlined and efficient small business overall.